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It Seems Sevco’s Season Ticket Sales Have Not Gone As Well As They Have Claimed.

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Curious article this, as I was gearing up to write it just before reading E-Tims fantastic Daily Diary this morning.

I was sitting tapping away at the keys the night before last when a mate of mine, Mike Gallagher, sent me some interesting screenshots of what he called “musical chairs” on the Sevco site.

It seemed that unsold seats were to be found all over the ground … and some sections would go red, indicating that those seats were available, and then white suggesting they weren’t.

Now I found this fascinating, but wondered what it could mean.

I was going to go and do some digging into it today but E-Tims beat me to it.

Apparently there are, in fact, seats for sale all over the Vomitorium.

As the Diary said, “so much for the waiting list.”

There are rumours that the finance company that was happy to help people buy their tickets this season have become much stricter about who they give money to. That may mean something or it may mean nothing; it could be that King himself just wants cold hard cash in the here and now and not spread over multiple payments.

Getting to the truth of that will take someone with longer reach than me; Phil perhaps?

If tickets are on public sale – and they are – there’s no sodding waiting list to speak of and any talk to the contrary is just cobblers.

How do I know there’s no waiting list?

Easy.

I was able to register, using my own name but the club’s own address and phone number …

And had the clear option to buy one I chose at random …

I don’t think I skipped 12,000 people in the queue.

This means two things; it means that sales over there have not gone as swimmingly as the Lying King would want you to believe – oh my God, imagine that! – and it means that their decision to shut Celtic fans out of their Broomloan Road allocation was purely and simply about sticking it to us in the pettiest way imaginable.

And I imagine that comes as no galloping shock to people either.

But it might come as a surprise to the police, who are being asked to change their whole operating procedure to accommodate King’s act of spite.

It might give them pause when deciding on whether or not to sign off on that decision.

Everything at Ibrox is amateur hour right now.

I will be covering Gerrard’s first week on the job in some detail later – it has been hilariously grim for him – but for now let me remind regular readers who follow the Sevco Soap Opera with anticipation that this is a club that cannot afford to have a single unsold seat in that ground.

That club will be running on empty long before this campaign reaches the midway point.

I have no idea – and they have no idea either – how they’re going to plug the hole.

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